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Serpo
9th September 2013, 03:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_Ttg0mB8khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_Ttg0mB8k


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_Ttg0mB8k) Rock Solid Industries staff captured the horrific truck accident in Pinetown last night on the BX1500 RSi SmartCamera. For more info - www.rocksolidindustries.co.za


The deaths of 27 people in an accident in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday night has shocked acting president Jeff Radebe, the presidency said.

KwaZulu-Natal Road Traffic Inspectorate spokesperson Zinhle Mngomezulu said that the Pinetown accident occurred when the brakes failed on a truck belonging to Evergreen Transport.

It took the off-ramp from the M13 at the bottom of Fields Hill and crashed into the four minibus taxis and a car at the intersection with Richmond Road.

It came to a standstill about 30m from the intersection.

Paramedics from various services arrived to find people and debris scattered across the scene.

Witness told them they had seen people flung from the vehicles as they were hit and then dragged by the truck.

The eThekwini Fire Brigade used the Jaws-of-life to extract some of the injured and the dead from the mangled wreckage of the taxis.

For the full article read the following:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/New... (http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Pinetown-road-deaths-shock-presidency-20130905)


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_Ttg0mB8k)

Cebu_4_2
9th September 2013, 04:50 AM
Truck looks to be traveling fast. How could it have stopped in 30M?

Glass
9th September 2013, 04:53 AM
shocking footage. I wonder how fast that rig was going. I'm also wondering about engine breaking. I guess you got to match revs. Still. Was the driver collapsed at the wheel?

Maybe 15 years ago we had a run away rig down the main highway that crosses the darling ranges to the east of Perth. Crashed through an intersection at the base of the mount. 1993 it was. Don't know how many died but it was pretty bad. They built an arrester bed which has actually been used a couple of times since.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Great_Eastern_Highway_Truck_Arrester_Bed.JPG/200px-Great_Eastern_Highway_Truck_Arrester_Bed.JPG

Basically a big long pit filled with loose gravel like they do on race circuits but deep to sink a truck in.